Module 1: Using Linux Tools
Module Objectives
After successfully completing this module a participant will be able to:
U Understand the design philosophy of *nix
Ap Use Linux as their day-to-day operating system
Ap Use the text processing tools such as 'grep', 'tr'
Ap Write and execute (bash) shell scripts
Ap Use a text editor comfortably
Suggested Reading
"In the beginning there was the command line" by Neal Stephenson [http://www.cryptonomicon.com/beginning.html]
"The Unix Programming Environment" by Kerninghan and Pike
"Introduction? Foss Philosophy?" [http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Linux_Guide/Introduction http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Linux_Guide/Introduction]
"Linux Commands" [http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Linux_Guide/Linux_commands]
"grep and regex" [http://www.robelle.com/smugbook/regexpr.html http://www.robelle.com/smugbook/regexpr.html]
"Text Processing and shell scripting" [http://tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/textproc.html#WF http://tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/textproc.html#WF](Has some good problems for Lab Notebook)
"Shell scripting and Text Processing Problems" [http://tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/textproc.html#WF]
Module Plan |
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Topic |
Duration |
LAB work |
What is Linux? FOSS Philosophy? |
10 mts |
1.Creating files: |
First steps: pwd, ls, mkdir |
10 mts |
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Getting help: apropos, man, info |
10 mts |
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Basic File Handling: cp, mv, rm |
10 mts |
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Linux File Heirarchy, man hier |
05 mts |
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Permissions and ownership, chmod, chown |
05 mts |
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Looking at files: cat, less |
05 mts |
1.Data Analysis one liners |
Basic text processing: head, tail, cut, paste |
15 mts |
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Redirection and Piping |
10 mts |
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More text processing: grep, tr, sort, uniq |
15 mts |
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Writing one-liner pipes |
05 mts |
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Writing simple shell scripts |
10 mts |
1.Complex Data Analysis |
Command line parameters |
05 mts |
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Control structures and operators in bash |
20 mts |
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Environment variables: set |
05 mts |
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Misc tools: tar, zip, cmp, diff, comm |
10 mts |
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